Looks like Penn State has their coach

Maybe he will be a successful another New England OC that went to Notre Dumb a few years back, well we can only hope.
 
He's staying with the Pats through the playoffs. I would think he might want to get his staff together and get out and recruit.
 
Here is the late November 'list' of potential PSU targets that intrepid student reporter Ben Jones put together in late November and early December.

Tom Bradley Interim PSU: Doubtful they were going to promote from within
Kevin Sumlin of Houston: Went to Texas A&M
Dan Mullen of Mississippi State: Denied any interest, quickly
Tony Dungy: Laughable
Pat Fitzgerald of Northwestern: Laughable
Tim Murphy of Harvard
Mark Richt of Georgia: Huh?
Chris Peterson of Boise State: Getting over 2mil/yr at Boise now
Charlie Strong of Louisville
K.C. Keeler of Delaware
Darren Perry of the Packers
Mike Munchak of the Titans: Some overtures, no dice, former PSU guy
Jim Caldwell of the Colts
Stanford HC David Shaw: Laughable
Steve Sarkisian of Washington: Laughable

Not sure how long it's going to take some in Happy Valley to realize the damage that has been done.
 
JonDMiller said:
Here is the late November 'list' of potential PSU targets that intrepid student reporter Ben Jones put together in late November and early December.

Tom Bradley Interim PSU: Doubtful they were going to promote from within
Kevin Sumlin of Houston: Went to Texas A&M
Dan Mullen of Mississippi State: Denied any interest, quickly
Tony Dungy: Laughable
Pat Fitzgerald of Northwestern: Laughable
Tim Murphy of Harvard
Mark Richt of Georgia: Huh?
Chris Peterson of Boise State: Getting over 2mil/yr at Boise now
Charlie Strong of Louisville
K.C. Keeler of Delaware
Darren Perry of the Packers
Mike Munchak of the Titans: Some overtures, no dice, former PSU guy
Jim Caldwell of the Colts
Stanford HC David Shaw: Laughable
Steve Sarkisian of Washington: Laughable

Not sure how long it's going to take some in Happy Valley to realize the damage that has been done.
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Another thing to think about when considering how "poisoned" this job has become is PSU is allowing him to stay with the Pats until they are eliminated from the playoffs. The Super Bowl is February 6th and Signing Day is February 1st. Who is going to fill out the remainder of this class for PSU? The current staff that has a 0.01% chance of returning next year?

It kind of makes you think that this guy was their only viable option for head coach and they had to hire him on his terms.
 
You have to figure that Tom Bradley was at least as good of a candidate as this guy is. The fact that Tom Bradley never even was in the running shows that the current staff is out of football until the Sandusky trial is over. It would be a huge liability to have anyone from that campus be your equipment manager.

Penn State is in full melt down mode. Rittenberg retweed Arrington saying he was taking down all of his Penn State stuff before OBrien was announced.

Fowler finally had to say that the school was having trouble marketing the job.

There is still a B1G investigation to go.

Penn State hasn't gotten an NCAA penalty, but they may as well have gotten the death penalty. A coach who isn't exciting anyone, who won't step foot on campus until after signing day. It's not a good time to be at that school.

I would wager that their enrollment goes down also.
 
spliff45 said:
He's staying with the Pats through the playoffs. I would think he might want to get his staff together and get out and recruit.
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Pretty laughable if you really think about it. Sounds like they got "their" guy. Definitely feel for the current players, and is there still no rule in place yet for them to transfer penalty free?
 
Penn State fans and former players appear to be taking it well. ;);):p:p

Scout.com: O'Brien has agreed to be head coach

A sampling of early reaction:

Top story on ESPN.com. Mortensen.
This is s***

I'm reserving a bit of hope it's not true. If it is, vomit. They should have hired Tom Bradley.

Oh god!!!! this *****. What the hell? Joyner just said tonight that they're still interviewing people.

<angry smilie hitting head on wall>

just got ill....

BlueWhiteIllustrated.com - Arrington, prominent lettermen blast PSU search
 
Reading the comments on the link it quickly becomes obvious that the PSU faithful haven't yet fully grasped the grave situation their football program is in.
 
BSpringsteen said:
You have to figure that Tom Bradley was at least as good of a candidate as this guy is. The fact that Tom Bradley never even was in the running shows that the current staff is out of football until the Sandusky trial is over. It would be a huge liability to have anyone from that campus be your equipment manager.

Penn State is in full melt down mode. Rittenberg retweed Arrington saying he was taking down all of his Penn State stuff before OBrien was announced.

Fowler finally had to say that the school was having trouble marketing the job.

There is still a B1G investigation to go.

Penn State hasn't gotten an NCAA penalty, but they may as well have gotten the death penalty. A coach who isn't exciting anyone, who won't step foot on campus until after signing day. It's not a good time to be at that school.

I would wager that their enrollment goes down also.
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Agree on all points.
 
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